The sea breeze blows with garlic. Finely fragmented snow particles hit the human skin on their backs. I didn't feel anything from my skin, because the temperature was so bad that the wood was frozen.

A destroyer flying a five-color flag was sailing high in the icy seas, and the shear-type ship was plowing the waves and heading north. Although the wind and waves at sea are not large, the temperature is very low.

Even in this low temperature, the sailors on the deck still waved their stiff arms, and with their frozen hands held various tools, knocking down the huge ice cubes that were frozen on the railings, turrets, bridges, masts, and cables of the warship, and all their heads were tightly wrapped in warm clothing, but they still could not stop the cold wind.

After all, this is the first time that the Chinese Navy fleet has come to such a northerly sea area in such a cold season, and this experience is insufficient, and the preparation of materials is also insufficient.

This is Vladivostok, called Vladivostok in Russian, located at the northwest tip of the Pacific Ocean, bordering the Sea of Japan, not far from the Tumen River, is the most important port of Russia in the Far East, although every year from November to February of the following year is the port freezing period, but in general, for Russia, a northern country that has been struggling to find an ice-free port in the south, this Vladivostok is the best port of the Russian Empire in the East, not only the winter freeze period is short, and the port conditions are very good, can berth 10,000 tons of shipsIt also has a great advantage in military offense and defense.

Vladivostok was previously Chinese territory, and Tsarist Russia used the opportunity of the Second Opium War to carry out a fairly successful strategic blackmail against the Manchu Dynasty, through a "Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing" to swallow a territory of about 400,000 square kilometers east of the Ussuri River, Vladivostok was among them, and since then, it has become the Far Eastern outpost of Tsarist Russia, which can go straight to the Pacific Ocean to the east, and to the west is China's Heilongjiang and Jilin, And it is connected with the territory of about 600,000 square kilometers north of the Heilongjiang River, which was previously occupied, allowing the world to once again see the greedy appetite of this polar bear.

It is difficult to fill the desire, Tsarist Russia has repeatedly tasted the sweetness of foreign expansion, then there is no need to wonder why Russia will join the Entente bloc, occupy more territory, control more colonies, this is the national strategy of Tsarist Russia, and the national strategy of Britain and France is not fundamentally different, the difference is that Russia's national strength is disproportionate to its ambitions, therefore, when the ambitions swell far beyond the national strength, Russia's road of external expansion finally came to an end, a European war, and the ensuing two revolutions, Finally ended the rule of the Russian Romanov dynasty, although now, there is a small court of the tsarist government in Baikal, but that does not mean that the Romanov dynasty can control the current situation in Russia, in fact, it is not the tsarist government that controls Vladivostok now, nor the revolutionary Soviet government, but a so-called "joint command of security" ruled by the military representatives of the United States, Britain, China, and Japan. Just five days ago, the United States, Great Britain, China, Japan organized an international joint fleet. A joint landing was carried out in Vladivostok, and it took less than half a day to completely control the Far Eastern city in little to no strong resistance, and immediately formed this "Joint Security Command", which was composed of military representatives from the four countries to form a security committee to jointly maintain social order in Vladivostok.

Now, apart from the sailors of the four countries, only the Russian police, and as for the Bolsheviks and anarchists, they have withdrawn from the city and have withdrawn far away.

After the coalition forces occupied the city, 50,000 Chinese army troops swaggered across the border by train, penetrated deep into Russian territory, and soon participated in the coalition army's military clean-up operation.

The sea breeze blows with garlic. Finely fragmented snow particles hit the human skin on their backs. I didn't feel anything from my skin, because the temperature was so bad that the wood was frozen.

Now that the strategic situation has stabilized, the next step for the coalition is to continue to increase the number of troops stationed in Vladivostok, and in the past few days, the United States, Great Britain, and Japan are moving army units from the colonies and the country to Vladivostok one after another, while China is increasing its naval forces.

A destroyer flying a five-color flag was sailing high in the icy seas, and the shear-type ship was plowing the waves and heading north. Although the wind and waves at sea are not large, the temperature is very low.

Even in this low temperature, the sailors on the deck still waved their stiff arms, and with their frozen hands held various tools, knocking down the huge ice cubes that were frozen on the railings, turrets, bridges, masts, and cables of the warship, and all their heads were tightly wrapped in warm clothing, but they still could not stop the cold wind.

The current captain of the "Makino" is Shen Honglie, and like the sailors, he also wraps himself in a knot with warm clothes

This is Vladivostok, called Vladivostok in Russian, located at the northwest tip of the Pacific Ocean, bordering the Sea of Japan, not far from the Tumen River, is the most important port of Russia in the Far East, although every year from November to February of the following year is the port freezing period, but in general, for Russia, a northern country that has been struggling to find an ice-free port in the south, this Vladivostok is the best port of the Russian Empire in the East, not only the winter freeze period is short, and the port conditions are very good, can berth 10,000 tons of shipsIt also has a great advantage in military offense and defense.

Five days ago, the coalition forces carried out a sea landing, the Chinese Navy did not send large warships, but only sent five destroyers, and now, Shen Honglie commanded the destroyer "Makino" to rush to Vladivostok, that is, to take over the command of the destroyer, because the destroyer displacement is not large, but the degree is very fast, so it is very suitable for carrying out the task of maintaining law and order in unfamiliar waters, and if the weather warms, the warship can even sail into the Ussuri River and Heilongjiang to carry out tasks.

Vladivostok was previously Chinese territory, and Tsarist Russia used the opportunity of the Second Opium War to carry out a fairly successful strategic blackmail against the Manchu Dynasty, through a "Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing" to swallow a territory of about 400,000 square kilometers east of the Ussuri River, Vladivostok was among them, and since then, it has become the Far Eastern outpost of Tsarist Russia, which can go straight to the Pacific Ocean to the east, and to the west is China's Heilongjiang and Jilin, And it is connected with the territory of about 600,000 square kilometers north of the Heilongjiang River, which was previously occupied, allowing the world to once again see the greedy appetite of this polar bear.

"Report to the captain! There's a big ice floe ahead! ”

It is difficult to fill the desire, Tsarist Russia has repeatedly tasted the sweetness of foreign expansion, then there is no need to wonder why Russia will join the Entente bloc, occupy more territory, control more colonies, this is the national strategy of Tsarist Russia, and the national strategy of Britain and France is not fundamentally different, the difference is that Russia's national strength is disproportionate to its ambitions, therefore, when the ambitions swell far beyond the national strength, Russia's road of external expansion finally came to an end, a European war, and the ensuing two revolutions, Finally ended the rule of the Russian Romanov dynasty, although now, there is a small court of the tsarist government in Baikal, but that does not mean that the Romanov dynasty can control the current situation in Russia, in fact, it is not the tsarist government that controls Vladivostok now, nor the revolutionary Soviet government, but a so-called "joint command of security" ruled by the military representatives of the United States, Britain, China, and Japan. Just five days ago, the United States, Great Britain, China, Japan organized an international joint fleet. A joint landing was carried out in Vladivostok, and it took less than half a day to completely control the Far Eastern city in little to no strong resistance, and immediately formed this "Joint Security Command", which was composed of military representatives from the four countries to form a security committee to jointly maintain social order in Vladivostok.

"See the other warships?" Shen Honglie asked.

Now, apart from the sailors of the four countries, only the Russian police, and as for the Bolsheviks and anarchists, they have withdrawn from the city and have withdrawn far away.

"Poor visibility, haven't seen yet. However, a channel carved out by an icebreaker has been seen in the ice floe area, and perhaps the coalition fleet has sailed into the harbor to anchor. ”

After the coalition forces occupied the city, 50,000 Chinese army troops swaggered across the border by train, penetrated deep into Russian territory, and soon participated in the coalition army's military clean-up operation.

"Let's go to the port and have a look."

Now that the strategic situation has stabilized, the next step for the coalition is to continue to increase the number of troops stationed in Vladivostok, and in the past few days, the United States, Great Britain, and Japan are moving army units from the colonies and the country to Vladivostok one after another, while China is increasing its naval forces.

Shen Honglie ordered, the warship immediately sailed into the channel carved out by the icebreaker, surrounded by the ice floes, cautiously sailed to the port, and under the leadership of a tugboat that came to meet the scene, the warship that was first seen by the sailors was an old battleship, Shen Honglie recognized at a glance, it was the Japanese battleship "Mikasa".

Now, the destroyer on its way to Vladivostok is the Chinese Navy destroyer "Makino", and the sailors on the deck of the warship are busy working precisely to maintain the stability of the hull and remove the ice that affects the safety of the warship's navigation.

"Mikasa" participated in the Russo-Japanese Battle of Tsushima, was the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet at that time, shortly after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the ship sank in the Sasebo accident, and was salvaged and repaired, and continued to serve in the Japanese fleet, although the displacement and main gun caliber are considerable, but after all, this is an old battleship, has fallen behind the times, so it no longer undertakes the main combat mission, peacetime as a maritime guard, this coalition intervention in the Russian Revolution, the Japanese government sent this old battleship, This warship is also the most combat-ready and deterrent warship in the coalition fleet now.

The destroyer "Makino" arrived from Qingdao and anchored overnight on the Japanese-occupied Korean island of Jeju to replenish fuel and provisions. Depart Jeju Island the next morning. Now, the warship had sailed to the near sea, which was only a dozen nautical miles from Vladivostok, and when the watchmen saw the lights of the harbor lighthouse, the warship began to slow down, but the sailors did not stop their work, because the captain was standing on the bridge.

In contrast, the "Makino" commanded by Shen Honglie was quite inconspicuous, so much so that when the warship slowly passed by the "Mikasa", it aroused the dissatisfaction of the Chinese sailors on the destroyer.

The current captain of the "Makino" is Shen Honglie, and like the sailors, he also wraps himself in a knot with warm clothes

"Japan sent such a large warship to Vladivostok, I'm afraid it's here to show off its might."

Strictly speaking, Shen Honglie still has war wounds that have not healed, the last time he participated in the Nanyang Naval Battle, his destroyer fleet was a great contribution, but the corresponding price was relatively high, the flagship sank, the officers and soldiers were killed, Shen Honglie himself was also injured, a head, a rib, although he was injured for a period of time, but there was one less rib, according to the military doctor, Shen Honglie should have been recuperating for at least a year, but now he has only been recuperating for half a year, Shen Honglie began to perform combat missions again, in order to carry out this task, He had to put some effort into convincing the medic that he was fully recovered.

"Other countries, either gunboats or destroyers, only Japan sent battleships, this is simply unreasonable!"

Five days ago, the coalition forces carried out a sea landing, the Chinese Navy did not send large warships, but only sent five destroyers, and now, Shen Honglie commanded the destroyer "Makino" to rush to Vladivostok, that is, to take over the command of the destroyer, because the destroyer displacement is not large, but the degree is very fast, so it is very suitable for carrying out the task of maintaining law and order in unfamiliar waters, and if the weather warms, the warship can even sail into the Ussuri River and Heilongjiang to carry out tasks.

"Bombing a group of revolutionaries who only have rifles and field guns in their hands, can they use such a large warship?"

"Report to the captain! There's a big ice floe ahead! ”

"I think it would be better for us in China to send our battleships over and compare them with the Japanese.

Just as Shen Honglie was standing on the bridge and directing the sailors to knock down the ice that had been hung in yesterday's snowstorm, an officer walked up behind him and reported to him the current location of the warship.

”

"See the other warships?" Shen Honglie asked.

"It can't be compared, there are more Japanese battleships than ours, and they are also updated." Listening to the discussion of the officers and soldiers, Shen Honglie wrinkled his brows and did not speak, and it must be admitted that the views of the sailors have a certain degree of truth, Japan is the country that has intervened the hardest in Russia this time, and as soon as it heard that the Chinese army has sent 50,000 troops, the Japanese government also intends to send the same number of army troops, and now the British government is persuading the central government of China to reduce the army strength in the area east of the Ussuri River to less than 20,000 troops, so as to avoid giving Japan an excuse to send more troops.

"Let's go to the port and have a look."

Shen Honglie can also speculate on what the Japanese government is up to, as a small power that has risen late, Japan has been trying to alleviate the population pressure at home, while immigrating to foreign countries, while occupying new territories, and the Russian Far East, as the closest mainland region to Japan's northern territories, is precisely the target of Japan's "northward expansionists", if it were not for the Sino-Japanese Northeast Asian War, perhaps Japan's "northward expansionists" would not have been depressed so quickly.

Shen Honglie ordered, the warship immediately sailed into the channel carved out by the icebreaker, surrounded by the ice floes, cautiously sailed to the port, and under the leadership of a tugboat that came to meet the scene, the warship that was first seen by the sailors was an old battleship, Shen Honglie recognized at a glance, it was the Japanese battleship "Mikasa".

Now, the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia is an excellent opportunity for Japan to expand, and it is precisely for this reason that Japan has not only tried its best to persuade China to participate in this international military intervention, but the Japanese army and navy are also fully prepared for a large-scale invasion of the Russian Far East.

"Mikasa" participated in the Russo-Japanese Battle of Tsushima, was the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet at that time, shortly after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the ship sank in the Sasebo accident, and was salvaged and repaired, and continued to serve in the Japanese fleet, although the displacement and main gun caliber are considerable, but after all, this is an old battleship, has fallen behind the times, so it no longer undertakes the main combat mission, peacetime as a maritime guard, this coalition intervention in the Russian Revolution, the Japanese government sent this old battleship, This warship is also the most combat-ready and deterrent warship in the coalition fleet now.

The situation facing Vladivostok today is very similar to that faced in China's Beijing-Tianjin region in the year of the Zodiak, in that the internal chaos in Russia was not dominated by a rabble, but by a modern party with a complete revolutionary theory, so the situation faced by the coalition forces here was completely different from that of the year.

In contrast, the "Makino" commanded by Shen Honglie was quite inconspicuous, so much so that when the warship slowly passed by the "Mikasa", it aroused the dissatisfaction of the Chinese sailors on the destroyer.

And this is also an important reason why China sent 50,000 army troops across the border, while Japan is just fishing in troubled waters.

"Japan sent such a large warship to Vladivostok, I'm afraid it's here to show off its might."

"Other countries, either gunboats or destroyers, only Japan sent battleships, this is simply unreasonable!"

"Bombing a group of revolutionaries who only have rifles and field guns in their hands, can they use such a large warship?"

"I think it would be better for us in China to send our battleships over and compare them with the Japanese.

”

"It can't be compared, there are more Japanese battleships than ours, and they are also updated." Listening to the discussion of the officers and soldiers, Shen Honglie wrinkled his brows and did not speak, and it must be admitted that the views of the sailors have a certain degree of truth, Japan is the country that has intervened the hardest in Russia this time, and as soon as it heard that the Chinese army has sent 50,000 troops, the Japanese government also intends to send the same number of army troops, and now the British government is persuading the central government of China to reduce the army strength in the area east of the Ussuri River to less than 20,000 troops, so as to avoid giving Japan an excuse to send more troops.

Shen Honglie can also speculate on what the Japanese government is up to, as a small power that has risen late, Japan has been trying to alleviate the population pressure at home, while immigrating to foreign countries, while occupying new territories, and the Russian Far East, as the closest mainland region to Japan's northern territories, is precisely the target of Japan's "northward expansionists", if it were not for the Sino-Japanese Northeast Asian War, perhaps Japan's "northward expansionists" would not have been depressed so quickly.

Now, the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia is an excellent opportunity for Japan to expand, and it is precisely for this reason that Japan has not only tried its best to persuade China to participate in this international military intervention, but the Japanese army and navy are also fully prepared for a large-scale invasion of the Russian Far East.

The situation facing Vladivostok today is very similar to that faced in China's Beijing-Tianjin region in the year of the Zodiak, in that the internal chaos in Russia was not dominated by a rabble, but by a modern party with a complete revolutionary theory, so the situation faced by the coalition forces here was completely different from that of the year.

And this is also an important reason why China sent 50,000 army troops across the border, while Japan is just fishing in troubled waters.